LoopLab: Artificial Life

Plant a loop. Watch it make another. Change a cell and see what happens next. LoopLab brings the surprising world of self-replicating cellular automata to your iPhone and iPad. Crisp, luminous tiles reveal moving signals and growing structures. Watch a colony unfold, zoom in on a tiny circuit, or pause and shape the world yourself. A LAB YOU CAN PLAY Start in Classic, based on Langton's Loop. Plant ready-made seeds, rotate them, paint individual states and erase cells. Pan and pinch to explore, adjust the pace, pause the action or advance one generation at a time. Try closed edges or a world that wraps around. LOOK CLOSER Inspect a cell to see its current state and the next transition under the selected model's rules. Switch to scientific view for numeric state labels. Rewind through recent recorded moments, then return to the present to continue your world. FOLLOW YOUR CURIOSITY…